The International Federation of Journalists' (IFJ) annual general meeting and executive committee meeting will be held in Athens on April 20-21.

Expected to attend the Athens event in person - held at the Journalists' Union of Athens Daily Newspapers (ESIEA) - are presidents of journalists associations' from Angola, Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Panama, Peru, Somalia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as representatives of the Arab world.

It is also expected that representatives from more than 147 countries will also attend the event online, as IFJ represents more than 600,000 professional journalists across the globe.

The economic situation of journalists around the world will be discussed, as will actions and reports on the situation listed by country.

Works on Thursday will begin with a vote on IFJ's 2022 audited accounts and the 2023 budget.

The meeting will be chaired by the IFJ's President Dominique Pradalier, in the presence of IFJ Secretary General Anthony Belanger and IFJ Honorary Treasurer Jim Boumelha. The European Federation of Journalists' (EFJ) President Maja Sever and Vice-President Mustafa Kuleli are also expected to attend in person.

Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) is the event's media sponsor.